US Coach Can Pray At School, Supreme Court Rules
A public US school was wrong to punish its football coach for praying at mid-field after his team’s games, the Supreme Court has ruled. Joseph Kennedy’s prayers were protected by the Constitutional right to religious expression and should not have been prohibited. The school had argued that the displays could coerce students of different beliefs […]
SSANU, NASU Extend Strike For Another Two Months
The government, according to the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has not responded favorably to their requests, necessitating a two-month extension of their strike action. The academic unions informed branch chairmen of the extension in a circular on Friday, June 24. The unions claimed in the circular […]
FCTA Threatens To Shut Down Schools Over Violation Of Guidelines
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed to close down any school in the territory that fails to meet the required minimum standard of the Nigerian educational curriculum and ensure quality teaching and learning. The administration also warned private schools that operate with expired accreditation certificates and prevent officials of the administration from accessing […]
APP Plans To Sue Tinubu Over Academic Qualification
The Action Peoples Party (APP) will on Monday sue the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu to question his academic qualification to stand for the 2023 election. The decision followed alleged irregularities in the academic qualification and documents submitted by Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Chairman […]
Davido Awards Scholarship To A Boy Who Passed His WASSCE Exam With A1 Parallel
A brilliant young boy who had been unable to continue his education due to financial difficulties was given a full university scholarship by Nigerian superstar singer David Adeleke, better known by his stage name Davido, after passing the WASSCE (West African Examination Council) exam with flying colors. Morro Suleyman, a Ghanaian boy, has been awarded […]
FG Disburses N56.8 Billion To All States For Teacher Development
The 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory have each received N56, 821,751,416.12 from the Universal Basic Education Commission for teacher professional development. The amount was contained in a UBEC document. In only two years, the administrations of Kaduna, Anambra, Plateau, Abia, and Niger states fired 9,392 teachers. The state administrations had rationalized the firing […]
Buhari Praise Afe Babalola, ABUAD For National, Global Excellence Rankings
President Muhammadu Buhari joins the founder and chancellor of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, as well as the institution’s management and staff, in congratulating the university on its positive rankings, which ranked it as the best in Nigeria and 400th in the world.In a statement released by his media aide, Femi Adesina, the […]
Strike: FG Resumes Negotiations With University Representatives, Meets ASUU Today
The Federal Government has resumed negotiations with university union representatives. Recall that last week, the government set up Prof Nimi Briggs’s committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreement which was slated to complete its three-month timeframe by June 7, 2022. However, investigations showed that the committee will meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities on […]
‘I’m not ready’: 2 Uvalde Victims Who Texted ‘I love you’ To Be Buried Next No One Another
In August, Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez came home from her first day of fourth grade at Robb Elementary School and told her mom about a boy. She said the boy, Xavier James Lopez, smelled and dressed “really nice,” her mother recalled — and within weeks, the two began passing notes in class. Months later, when the weather warmed, […]
Uvalde Mass Shooting: Wounded Teacher Condemns Police As Cowards
A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as “cowards” for delaying taking action while his pupils were killed. In a harrowing interview with ABC News he said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting. Eleven of them died when the gunman stalked his and an […]
